• SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    He just announced foreign vehicle tariffs and there is a huge scandal brewing around the Signal thing. If the media stays on the Signal leak it could become a Watergate-sized problem.

    So, Trump hit the “distract them with Greenland” button. He couldn’t use the “distract them with Canada is a state” button again, he used that one for the Social Security thing last week.

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      I feel like if Watergate happened half the country and most of Congress would find some way of justifying it and no one would even remember it happened a week later because something else equally insane would come up.

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        Watergate is such a tiny thing in comparison to what tiny hands has done. He has brought a mob to the capital to overthrow the government. Now he is just destroying the government from inside.

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    Trump and the Trump administration are behaving like assholes all over the world.
    USA has never been so universally unpopular.

    Flight passangers from Canada to USA are down 70%.
    Tesla sales in Europe are down 50%.

    The boycotts have begun, and numbers like these may be common for 2025.
    Trump will cost many jobs in USA, and increased inflation, and it seems an economic downturn too.

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    Thinking about why the US is so keen on Greenland: It’s only relevant for them if they intend to make enemies out of the EU, because they already have all the access they need. But only as long as they are allied with Europe.

    It’s clear where this is headed. Russia is not the only reason why Europe is rearming.

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      He’s planning to withdraw from NATO. Otherwise it makes no sense. USA already has more or less free access to build any military base they want there

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      That is also why he wants an ICBM defense mesh, because realistically that’s the only chance Europe has to cripple us in a fight.

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        Hardly. There are many ways to “cripple” the US without need to resort to a simple-minded military slugfest.

        They could act to support Trump’s next reelection bid, for example. That’d be more devastating to American power than a nuke.

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      The plan is easy:

      • USA take Canada, greenland and everything up to Panama for Security Reason.
      • Russia take back some part of Europe because they are talking Russian.
      • China take South Korea with North Korea and Taiwan because it’s China anyway…

      Easy plan for megalo-dictators

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    Please, Europe, just take this as a declaration war and attack the US now to nip this in the bud.

    The sooner this child is stopped, the sooner the world can improve.

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      The worst part is that he is completely unhinged and I can easily imagine launching some nuclear nukes towards Europe.

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      This is definitely a ‘spare the rod, should the child’ situation. We need a spanking!

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    Try as I may to avoid this absurd political reality I find myself in, I am continuously dumbfounded by these headlines. I have to check everytime if the post is an Onion article.

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      The Onion is gonna go bankrupt at this rate. I just imagine the editors coming up with stories and headlines, only to crumple and toss them in the trash whenever Trump holds a press conference.

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        I picture a sign at Onion HQ.

        It has been 0 0 3 days since we were accidentally factual news.

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        The Dutch equivalent of The Onion actually send a cease and desist letter to one of our ministers, because they can’t compete with the shit she is saying (this woman gives Trump’s government a run for their money in terms of both evilness and incompetence)

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    I wish Trump and his people to really go as far as they have to…And to stay there. Evena bit farther, I won’t complain

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    Can this fucker ever say anything that actually means what he says. I swear to fuck, every fucking thing out of this asses mouth is something that can be taken however he wants it. I understand WHY he does it that way but fuck am I tired of it. Its been barely two months. Holy fuck.